Tottenham 3-1 Reading

[Chelmsford_yid]

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Barclays Premier League - 1st Jan  - KO 15.00 - Ground: White Hart Lane

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[Metalanimal]

Its easy to come unstuck against the lesser teams as they have nothing to loose and fight for every game.  As long as we give them the respect they deserve and treat them like we are playing Manure we should come away with maximium points but this game has the risk of us coming away with nil points as well.

[Metalanimal]

Good well done and a good result considering we went a goal down.

We really need to start making our possession count for more as it will be needed against the stronger teams!

3 points in the bag!

Keep it going lads and AVB!

[Chelmsford_yid]

Tottenham moved up to third in the Premier League table as they claimed a deserved victory against Reading.
The visitors went ahead when Pavel Pogrebnyak headed in a rebound after Ian Harte's free-kick hit the crossbar.
But Spurs equalised only five minutes later, Michael Dawson with a diving header from Gylfi Sigurdsson's corner.
Emmanuel Adebayor's powerful header from Aaron Lennon's cross put Tottenham ahead, before Clint Dempsey's deflected 25-yard effort sealed the hosts' win.

[RiffHard]

34 shots vs 7 of Reading is not bad at all. Another win in the bag and a great start to 2013. Now, let's keep this form going.

[Metalanimal]

34 shots vs 7 of Reading is not bad at all. Another win in the bag and a great start to 2013. Now, let's keep this form going.

Hell yeah only as good as our last game!

34 shots seriously, 10% conversion rate then which is a wee bit poo, shows how many chances we are creating which shows we are improving as a performing team!

[spursjoolz]

Another good win, even if we had a few scary moments around the 74th minute when Reading threaten to score from 3 corners.

Obviously, we have to win against lower half teams and today we could have scored 5 or 6, again!
(We must find a way to get through defenses).

My man of the match: Lennon. he is on top form atm

[DC76]

Another good win, even if we had a few scary moments around the 74th minute when Reading threaten to score from 3 corners.

Obviously, we have to win against lower half teams and today we could have scored 5 or 6, again!
(We must find a way to get through defenses).

My man of the match: Lennon. he is on top form atm

Judging from the article on my Yahoo! feed this morning, AVB agrees with your assessment of Lennon. 

In any case, it's always good to see Spurs win a good one.

[ugs]

Good win, good performance another 3 points but it still worries me that we could of been in trouble if Reading had made the most of their 3 opportunities. Incidently the Reading chances coincided with AVB making changes again, I think that this is a bit of weakness with him and he needs to consider these changes a bit more especially if the game hasn't been put to bed. Also AVB really needs to work on the strikers and forward line, creating the chances is only half the job we need to put them away and really punish these teams that way we won't have a problem with chances being created against us later in the game when substitutions have been made.
 
Issues that need to be addressed but they are not harming us at the moment, hopefully AVB will get there with these issues. Credit where credit is due he has ironed out a few other minor problems in recent weeks and got us playing more fluently so fingers crossed.
 
Finally I'd like to just say that Michael Dawson's interview after the match about Gareth Bale and the team was pure class and spoken like a true captain, well done Daws !!!! (He should be a permanent fixture in the back four in my opinion!!!)
 
 

[Paul Finch]

Ugs,
    I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment of the game, and also with the substitutions, I have been critical of his substitutions for some time, for some reason almost directly after he makes them the opposition seem to have a purple patch, where they create chances and could almost always nick a point or win the game, and its seems to cause panic in our defence, when for the previous however many minutes, the defence has been holding firm, and looking almost inpregnable, I just don't understand why.

 

[Chelmsford_yid]

Tottenham vs Reading (3-1) ALL GOALS and FULL MATCH HIGHLIGHTS 1/1/2013 VIDEO in HQ

[spursjoolz]

One very important factor about our win is Adebayor's timely goal. He has had a few bad games and and has been criticised as a result. This will no doubt boost his confidence. 

[Glenn R]

A good result. Dropped their concentration a bit but overall Spurs were too strong for Reading. We should have had one or two more.